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How to manage a client project #52

Open jeancochrane opened 5 years ago

jeancochrane commented 5 years ago

Documentation request

It feels like we have some ad-hoc practices that have emerged for managing the full lifecycle of a client project, e.g. kickoff calls, deadline setting, weekly email updates, and post-project retrospectives. Let's immortalize this wisdom in a document in the project-management/ directory so that we can have some consistent standards for managing projects.

hancush commented 3 years ago

Our existing senior staff have all attended management training, and rising Lead Developers will attend the same training. This training yields a lot of useful resources re: navigating power dynamics and managing people (#133) but it doesn't cover specific project management techniques. To that end, @smcalilly found "Shape Up" from the team at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/shapeup. Looks like a pretty relevant read!

hancush commented 1 year ago

I would like to revive this thread!

smcalilly commented 1 year ago

Agreed. And I don't think we should listen to Basecamp's recommendations (re that book I suggested).

smcalilly commented 1 year ago

This is a huge undertaking, what would this look like? Maybe we should cut the scope down to project management? That would be useful for me in my current position.

hancush commented 1 year ago

@smcalilly I love the idea of parsing out different threads of this, starting with project management, as it's applicable to the largest number of us. Some additional threads might include client / relationship management and project development and scoping for new and follow on work.